Improvement in saw-handles



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMANUEL ANDREWS, OF WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAW-HANDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,140, dated January 26, 1875; application filed May 4, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMANUEL ANDREWS, of Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Saw-Handles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The object of my invention is, first, to strengthen the handle to a hand-saw and, secondly, to avoid the breaking off of the horns of the handle; and it consists in the combination of devices employed as hereinafter set forth.

In order to enable those skilled in the art to make my handles, I proceed to describe the same in connection with the drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view, partly in perspective, of my saw-handle as applied to a hand-saw; Fig. 2. a separate view of one of the tips or horns; Fig. 3, a view of a modification of the handle 0 as adapted for small light saws; Fig. 4, a view of another modification as adapted for meat-saws; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the modification in Fig. 4.

Like letters denote corresponding parts in each figure.

A denotes the blade of the portion ofa handsaw which is used for cutting, and B that partintended to be covered by the handle 0. The part B of the saw-blade is cut away by suitable appliances, preferably by proper dies, in such a form as shall exactly conform to the shape of the center of every part of the handle except the horns.

The handle may bemade of two parts but I prefer to make them of one piece, and have the same sawed vertically and centrally from the front to a point at or near the part marked Being so sawed, the handle is slipped upon the previously-prepared part B, and the whole suitably fastened together. There will then be a handle like the ordinary one in market, except it will have everywhere a central film of the steel, being that part of the blade out to conform to the outlines of the handle.

Upon these handles I put horns D, of cast gutta-percha, hard Illbbi r, or paper, or of rubber filled with paper or other suitable madle end of the blade is first secured to the rigid frame of the saw, and that partin the center of the handle is out to conform to the central section of the same.

Having thus described my invention, and some of its advantages, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with a hand-saw handle, the saw-blade, extended centrally through the same, and conforming to the outlines thereof, substantially as described and shown.

2. In a hand-saw handle, the tips or horns D, substantially as described and shown.

This specification signed and witnessed this 30th day of April, 1874:;

EMANUEL ANDREWS.

WVitnesses:

CHARLES THURMAN, GEORGE L. DYER. 

